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Monday, November 25th, 2024
the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34
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King James Version

Psalms 22:21

Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Jesus Continued;   Persecution;   Unicorn (Wild Ox, Rsv);   The Topic Concordance - Jesus Christ;   Suffering;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Horns;   Unicorn;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Psalms, the Book of;   Unicorn;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Animals;   Horn;   Psalms, book of;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Deliver;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Unicorn;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Aijeleth Shahar;   David;   Unicorn;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Animals;   Dog;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Aijeleth Hash-Shahar;   Atonement;   English Versions;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Psalms;   Sin;   Unicorn;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Lion;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Unicorn;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Cedron;   Naphtali;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Lion;   Messiah;   Psalms the book of;   Unicorn;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Lion;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Horn;   Mouth;   Unicorn;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Horn;   Mouth;   Unicorn;   Wild-Ox;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Unicorn;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
Snatch me from the lion's jaws and from the horns of these wild oxen.
English Revised Version
Save me from the lion's mouth; yea, from the horns of the wild-oxen thou hast answered me.
Update Bible Version
Save me from the lion's mouth; Yes, from the horns of the wild-oxen you have answered me.
New Century Version
Rescue me from the lion's mouth; save me from the horns of the bulls.
New English Translation
Rescue me from the mouth of the lion, and from the horns of the wild oxen! You have answered me!
Webster's Bible Translation
Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.
World English Bible
Save me from the lion's mouth; Yes, from the horns of the wild oxen you have answered me.
Amplified Bible
Save me from the lion's mouth; From the horns of the wild oxen You answer me.
English Standard Version
Save me from the mouth of the lion! You have rescued me from the horns of the wild oxen!
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Make thou me saaf fro the mouth of a lioun; and my mekenesse fro the hornes of vnycornes.
Berean Standard Bible
Save me from the mouth of the lion; at the horns of the wild oxen You have answered Me!
Contemporary English Version
Don't let lions eat me. You rescued me from the horns of wild bulls,
American Standard Version
Save me from the lion's mouth; Yea, from the horns of the wild-oxen thou hast answered me.
Bible in Basic English
Be my saviour from the lion's mouth; let me go free from the horns of the cruel oxen.
Complete Jewish Bible
Rescue me from the sword, my life from the power of the dogs.
Darby Translation
Save me from the lion's mouth. Yea, from the horns of the buffaloes hast thou answered me.
Easy-to-Read Version
Rescue me from the lion's mouth. Protect me from the horns of the bulls.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Deliver my soul from the sword; mine only one from the power of the dog.
King James Version (1611)
Saue me from the lyons mouth: for thou hast heard me from the hornes of the vnicornes.
New Life Bible
Save me from the lion's mouth, and from the horns of the wild bulls You answer me.
New Revised Standard
Save me from the mouth of the lion! From the horns of the wild oxen you have rescued me.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Saue me from the lyons mouth, and answere me in sauing me from the hornes of the vnicornes.
George Lamsa Translation
Save me from the lions mouth; save my meekness from the haughty,
Good News Translation
Rescue me from these lions; I am helpless before these wild bulls.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Save me from the mouth of the lion, - Yea, from the horns of wild beasts, hast thou delivered me.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(21-22) Save me from the lion’s mouth; and my lowness from the horns of the unicorns.
Revised Standard Version
Save me from the mouth of the lion, my afflicted soul from the horns of the wild oxen!
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Saue me from the Lions mouth: delyuer me from the hornes of the Unicornes.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Save me from the lion’s mouth; and regard my lowliness from the horns of the unicorns.
Christian Standard Bible®
Save me from the lion’s mouth,from the horns of wild oxen.You answered me!
Hebrew Names Version
Save me from the lion's mouth; Yes, from the horns of the wild oxen you have answered me.
Lexham English Bible
Save me from the mouth of the lion, and from the horns of the wild oxen answer me.
Literal Translation
Save Me from the lion's mouth; and from the horns of the wild oxen. You have answered Me.
Young's Literal Translation
Save me from the mouth of a lion: -- And -- from the horns of the high places Thou hast answered me!
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Saue me from the lyons mouth, and heare me fro amonge the hornes off the vnicornes.
New American Standard Bible
Save me from the lion's mouth; From the horns of the wild oxen You answer me.
New King James Version
Save Me from the lion's mouth And from the horns of the wild oxen! You have answered Me.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Save me from the lion's mouth; From the horns of the wild oxen You answer me.
Legacy Standard Bible
Save me from the mouth of the lion;From the horns of the wild oxen You have answered me.

Contextual Overview

11 Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help. 12 Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round. 13 They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion. 14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels. 15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death. 16 For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet. 17 I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me. 18 They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture. 19 But be not thou far from me, O Lord : O my strength, haste thee to help me. 20 Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

me from: Luke 22:53, John 14:30, 2 Timothy 4:17, 1 Peter 5:8

horns: Numbers 23:22, Deuteronomy 33:17, Job 39:9, Job 39:10, Isaiah 34:7, John 8:59, Acts 4:27, Acts 5:30-32

Reciprocal: Leviticus 1:15 - wring off his head Psalms 22:13 - as a Psalms 25:20 - O Psalms 35:17 - rescue Psalms 118:25 - Save Psalms 142:7 - the righteous Zechariah 11:3 - a voice Luke 10:3 - I send Hebrews 5:7 - and Revelation 13:2 - and his mouth

Cross-References

Genesis 22:1
And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.
Genesis 22:12
And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.
Genesis 24:10
And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master, and departed; for all the goods of his master were in his hand: and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor.
Numbers 23:7
And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.
Job 1:1
There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.
Job 32:2
Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Save me from the lion's mouth,.... Either the devil, who is as a roaring lion, whom Christ overcame both in the garden and on the cross, and destroyed him and his works; or all his wicked enemies, especially the most powerful of them, who were in greatest authority, as the chief priests and elders; so rulers and civil magistrates, who are cruel and unmerciful, are compared to lions, Proverbs 28:15;

for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns; some read this as a prayer like the former, "hear thou me" l, c. that is, deliver me but according to our version it expresses what God had done, that he had heard him and saved him; and is used as a reason or argument with him that he would regard also his other petitions: or it may have respect to what follows, that since God had heard him, and delivered him out of the hands of his most powerful enemies, therefore he would declare his name and praise him; for the unicorn being a very strong creature, and its strength lying much in its horn, with which it pushes and does mischief; see Numbers 23:22. Christ's strong and potent enemies are intended here; such as Satan and his principalities and powers, the sanhedrim of the Jews, Herod, Pontius Pilate, and others, from whose power he was freed when raised from the dead. According to Pliny m, the monoceros, or unicorn, is the fiercest of wild beasts; in its body like a horse, it has the head of an hart and feet of an elephant, the tail of a bear, makes a great bellowing; has one black horn rising up in the middle of the forehead, of two cubits long; it is denied that it was ever taken alive, which agrees with Job 39:9;

Job 39:9- : and

Job 39:9- :.

l עניתני "exaudi me", Muis, Gejerus, Michaelis. m Nat. Hist. l. 8. c. 21.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Save me from the lion’s mouth - His enemies represented as fierce and ravening lions, compare Psalms 22:13,

For thou hast heard me - The word “heard” in this place is equivalent to “saved” - or saved in answer to prayer. The fact of “hearing” the prayer, and answering it, is regarded as so identical, or the one as so certainly following from the other, that they may be spoken of as the same thing.

From the horns of the unicorns - The idea here is, that he cried to God when exposed to what is here called “the horns of the unicorns.” That is, when surrounded by enemies as fierce and violent as wild beasts - as if he were among “unicorns” seeking his life - he had called upon God, and God had heard him. This would refer to some former period of his life, when surrounded by dangers, or exposed to the attacks of wicked men, and when he had called upon God, and had been heard. There were not a few occasions alike in the life of David and in the life of the Saviour, to which this would be applicable. The fact that he had thus been delivered from danger, is now urged as an argument why God was to be regarded as able to deliver him again, and why the prayer might be offered that he would do it; compare Psalms 22:9-11. To see the force of this it is not necessary to be able to determine with accuracy what is meant here by the word rendered unicorn, or whether the psalmist referred to the animal now denoted by that term. The existence of such an animal was long regarded as fabulous; but though it has been proved that there is such an animal, it is not necessary to suppose that the psalmist referred to it. Gesenius renders the word - ראם re'êm - “buffalo” (Lexicon) So also DeWette. See the notes at Job 39:9-10, where the meaning of the word is fully considered. The word occurs elsewhere only in Numbers 23:22; Numbers 24:8; Deuteronomy 33:17; Psalms 29:6; Psalms 92:10; Isaiah 34:7, in all which places it is rendered “unicorn,” or “unicorns.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 22:21. Save me from the lion's mouth — Probably our Lord here includes his Church with himself. The lion may then mean the Jews; the unicorns, רמים remin (probably the rhinoceros,) the Gentiles. For the unicorn, Numbers 23:22. There is no quadruped or land animal with one horn only, except the rhinoceros; but there is a marine animal, the narwhal or monodon, a species of whale, that has a very fine curled ivory horn, which projects from its snout. One in my own museum measures seven feet four inches, and is very beautiful. Some of these animals have struck their horn through the side of a ship; and with it they easily transfix the whale, or any such animal. The old Psalter says, "The unicorn es ane of the prudest best that es, so that he wil dye for dedeyn if he be haldyn ogayn his wil."


 
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